Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Doctors and nurses who have a moral objection to prescribing
‘contraceptives’ which act by killing human embryos are to be barred from
receiving diplomas in sexual and reproductive health even if they undertake the
necessary training according to new guidelines.

Under new rules issued by the Faculty of Sexual and
Reproductive Health (FSRH) earlier this year these doctors and nurses are also to
be barred from membership of the faculty and from specialty training.

The FSRH is a faculty of
the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists established on the 26th
March 1993 as the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. In
2007 it changed its name to the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.

Whilst many contraceptives act by preventing the union of
sperm and egg, some, including most IUCDs (intrauterine contraceptive devices)
and the morning-after pill EllaOne
(ulipristal acetate), also act by preventing the implantation of an early embryo.
In other words they are embryocidal or abortifacient, rather than truly
contra-ceptive.

Many doctors, of all faiths and none, have a moral objection
to destroying human life and wish therefore to avoid using drugs or methods
which act after fertilisation.

In fact this position was once held by the British Medical
Association (BMA) when it adopted the Declaration of
Geneva in 1948. This states, ‘I will maintain the utmost respect for human life
from the time of conception even against
threat’.

But in 1983 the words ‘from the time of conception’ were
amended to ‘from its beginning’ due to sensitivities about increasing medical
involvement in abortion. The word 'beginning' was left undefined, giving doctors the opportunity to argue, contrary to the biological reality, that early human life was not actually human life at all.

Now it seems that doctors who wish to abide by the original
wording of the Declaration of Geneva are to be barred from practising in
certain medical specialties. This is an extraordinary about face.

The Faculty may argue that they are not barring doctors and
nurses from practising, but simply from obtaining certain qualifications. But as many job appointments will be conditional on applicants having these
qualifications this is effectively also a bar on practice.

Interestingly doctors who have a moral objection to abortion are still able to complete the
Faculty’s qualifications because the Abortion Act 1967 contains a conscience
clause which protects them. But there is no law protecting those who object to
destroying human embryos.

Many Christians believe that every human life, regardless of
age, sex, race, degree of disability or any other biological characteristic, is
worthy of the utmost respect, wonder, empathy and protection.

This is based on the idea, taught in the Bible, that human
beings are made in the image of God. In a society which is becoming more
hostile to Christian faith and values it is perhaps not surprising that we are
seeing institutional discrimination of this kind.

Perhaps it is time for Christian doctors and nurses, and
others who share their prolife views, to set up an
alternative training programme.

'In fact this position was once held by the British Medical Association (BMA) when it adopted the Declaration of Geneva in 1948. This states, ‘I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception even against threat’.'

'But in 1983 the words ‘from the time of conception’ were amended to ‘from its beginning’ due to sensitivities about increasing medical involvement in abortion. The word 'beginning' was left undefined, giving doctors the opportunity to argue, contrary to the biological reality, that early human life was not actually human life at all.'

It is shocking that the RCOG has voted to bar any medics who have a moral objection to abortion and abortion inducing cotraceptives. The pro=abortion lobby and atheists have been pushing for discrimination against medics with moral objections to abortion for years. it is a very dark day for those who have conscientious objections to abortion or the taking of a human life of any age.

Speaking of fascism, I know a great number of people who would prefer Zyklon B over the paternalistic tyranny (forgive the tautology) advocated by anti-choice, anti-compassion advocates concerning end-of-life-choice.

Mere bald assertion - you cannot prove, by intellectual argument, that opinion. You haven't explained away the existence of each man's soul and spirit.

Of course if you say that each man has no soul and spirit - then you cannot condemn the incineration of six million Jews nor 20 million Russians under Stalin - after all in your view they would be mere clouds of bio-chemical cells: with no free will and therefore no capacity to hate nor love.

What is the world coming to? The Abortion Law was made to protect the unborn and abortion was only meant to be allowed if a woman's life or the life of her unborn child was in danger and permission had to be granted by two doctors who had seen them mother. . The Government is breaking its own law and the medical profession itself is going against its own ethical code, I really fear for the future of this country.

What upsets me more than anything is that women are being allowed to have not just one abortion but in many cases eight or nine, there doesn't seem to be any concern about the babies that are being murdered daily. If there is a terrible disaster when young innocent people are killed, as in the recent ferry event, we then say all the potential that has been lost yet do not seem to think the same way about all these aborted babies. Also couples who are desperate to have a child find it hard to find very small babies because they have been aborted.

How much do these abortions cost the NHS and nobody seems concerned about that, surely if a woman is prepared to abort more than one child then she should be sterilised. What about the rights of the unborn child?

Marie Stopes , Brookes advisory clinics and other supposedly pro abortion (not choice) organisations benefit financially from all the abortions taking place in their clinics as millions of public funding Is handed over to them. No disinterest there then!The most dangerous place for an unborn child is its mother's womb. That's disgraceful. What a selfish, uncompassionate society we have become.

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